1945 Broadway audiences hear "If I Loved Loved You," "June Is Bustin' Out All Over," and "You'll Never Walk Alone" for the first time when and 's musical opens at the Majestic Theatre. and star, directs, and choreographs.
1946 Actor is born in Cheshire, England. He creates memorable Broadway roles including Frank N. Furter in , Mozart in , Dada artist Tristan Tzara in , and King Arthur in , and appears, usually as the villain, in more than one hundred films and cartoons.
1951 , , and are residents at a country hotel in 's Waters of the Moon. They won't be checking out till they finish a run at London's Haymarket. stages.
1955 's short opera Trouble in Tahiti, dance routines by , and a staging of ' 27 Wagons Full of Cotton are . and appear in the Williams play. The evening runs at New York's Playhouse Theatre.
1956 Broadway starts at the Golden Theatre. and are Didi and Gogo. directs.
1972 If only people listened when you say ! stars in and supplies the music and lyrics for the musical exploring the trials, and celebrating the pride, of African-American life. It runs 1,065 performances at the Edison Theatre in New York.
1979 's tale of the grossly disfigured John Merrick, better known as , opens on Broadway at the Booth Theatre. stars as the stricken man (sans makeup) while and co-star. The play wins the Tony Award for Best Play. Replacements in the role of Merrick include and .
2001 It's ker-ching time for Hitler鈥攁nd and all of Broadway. It's opening night of at the St. James Theatre, as ticket buyers form lines down 44th Street to see and in the musical adaptation of the 1968 Brooks film. The production wins a record-breaking 12 Tony Awards, and runs for 2,502 performances.
2006 Film star makes her Broadway debut as one point of a love triangle in the Broadway premiere of 's drama . Also making his Broadway debut in the production is .
2009 and play battling queens of Scotland and England in the 's revival of 鈥檚 , which opens at the Broadhurst Theatre. Directed by , the production played a sold-out engagement at the in 2005, before moving to the West End and Broadway.
2011 , 's play about an addict, an enabler, and a sponsor鈥攕tarring as a nun who agrees to counsel a tough 19-year-old crystal-meth abuser鈥攐pens on Broadway at the Booth Theatre.
2012 , ' humor-flecked play about racial and economic changes in a neighborhood over a 50-year period, opens on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre. The domestic satire of clashing cultures inspired by 's , was first seen at Off-Broadway's in 2010. In June 2012, the play adds the Tony Award for Best Play to a list of achievements that already included the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Olivier Award for Best Play.
2015 and 's musical adaptation of 's graphic memoir , which parallels Bechdel's coming of age as a lesbian and the suicide of her closeted gay father, opens on Broadway at Circle in the Square. Starring , , , , and , it wins five Tony Awards, including Best Musical.
2017 A Broadway revival of 's , with and alternating in the roles of Regina and Birdie, opens on Broadway at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Nixon wins the Tony Award for Featured Actress in a Play for her performance as Birdie, the role she played in the show's opening night performance.
2018 is Eliza Doolittle to 's Professor Henry Higgins in a revival of opening at the Vivian Beaumont Theater. directs the production, which also features as Alfred P. Doolittle and as Mrs. Higgins.
More of Today's Birthdays: May Robson (1858-1942), (1897-1992), Kay Swift (1897-1993), Marian Winters (1924-1978), (1935-2002), Jonathan Tunick (b. 1938), (b. 1954), Scott Ellis (b. 1957), (b. 1968)
Watch highlights from the 2015 Broadway production of Fun Home:
